The Armour Archive

We all know how important it is to wear eye protection. Hearing protection is highly valued as well as not setting oneself on fire. The benefits of gloves around rotating tools is hotly debated but there is one safety message I would like to share that I don't think has been mentioned before.

For the carpenters who work with glue, and the leather workers who harden with glue... especially the users of Tightbond-3... when you are working in your shop and your hands are covered in glue and you are sweating... DO NOT attempt to brush your hair out of your eyes with your glue covered hands. I repeat HAIR and TIGHTBOND-3 are a BAD MIX. And it does NOT like to wash out and it sure as heck does not want to comb out!

This has been a public safety message, you have been warned... you can all begin laughing at my expense now.

Sean

Yeah... while not life threatening, it can make going to the office the next day truly Special.

Can't say I've done quite that one. Similar enough, but not quite that one.

Good job .

Sean Powell wrote:This has been a public safety message, you have been warned... you can all begin laughing at my expense now.

Sean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6UU6m3cqk

hehehe.. I managed NOT to glue my fingers together while I was trying to fix a really nasty crack in a bowl I was turning with superglue.

However, I _DID_ glue the spot on my thumb under the thumbnail TO the thumbnail on both thumbs. Wanna talk about an odd sensation.. superglue generates heat when it cures.

As a carpenter...I can sympathize with you...I have on occasion gotten Titebond2 in my hair from over zealous guys doing the floors above and had some drip down...Not fun at all..

So, got any pictures???

Eamonn MacCampbell wrote: So, got any pictures???

Of my new hair-cut? Nah it looks like my old hair-cut... but even the hair stylist was gettng her comb stuck and I thought I had yanked it all out by the roots. The scalp still stings though. Regretably I can't blame it on other carpenters, just myself. I hate blaming myself.

Sean

Sean Powell wrote: The scalp still stings though. Regretably I can't blame it on other carpenters, just myself. I hate blaming myself.

Sean

I'll just bet it does...I have done it to myself a time or two as well..Too much hair, not paying attention, something needed adjustment and had to lay down on the floor trying to line a joist up thats been already glued...Yup, done , but not bad...Couldn't even notice when I cut the hair...

One of the wiseasses at the place I used to work coated the head-band part of another guys welding helmet with some kind of industrial glue.. that was several kinds of funny.

Sean,

Sorry to hear about the sticky situation you got yourself in.

What were you working on? Pics please.

Johannes Machiavelli

Jay Sabath wrote:Sean,

Sorry to hear about the sticky situation you got yourself in.

Groan, you becoming a Herald with those puns?

What were you working on? Pics please.

Johannes Machiavelli

Gonna have to wait until Galleron finishes them. I glued up some planks of poplar to make ecranche shields. Mine still needs to be cut and re-glued. Getting wood into a saddle shape is several kinds of PITA.

Sean

Sean Powell wrote:Groan, you becoming a Herald with those puns?

Sean

I've heard you do puns as well.

I'm still just a guy who does some arts and crafts and fights occasionally.


Johannes Machiavelli